Still more pressure for Mayor Ed Lee to run for a four-year term

We wonder what the folks trying to convince Mayor Ed Lee to run for a four-year term in November were like as kids. “Dad, I know you said no 835 times. But puh-lease? Pretty please? Come onnnnn!” Did they even make websites with titles like Raise My Allowance or Let Me Have A Puppy?

Visitors to the site can sign an on-line petition telling Lee to run, agree to post a sign in their window or donate money to a political committee called Progress for All designed, apparently, to fund the nagging.

And there’s a new entrant: Michael Breyer, appointed by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom to the Library Commission, has created www.draftedlee.com. It’s a Facebook page boasting more than 1,000 fans. Breyer isn’t a political consultant and wouldn’t stand to benefit monetarily by working on a Lee for Mayor campaign.

“It’s not about going back to him 16 times, the same few people saying, ‘You should really run,’” Breyer said. “It’s about a broader grassroots effort that I think hopefully he will hear … You don’t pinch hit for someone who’s hit three home runs in a game.”

Lee vowed upon taking office as interim mayor in January that he wouldn’t run in November. Is any of this pressure to run making his think twice? In a word, according to his spokeswoman Christine Falvey, nope.

P.S. If Lee doesn’t enter the race, potential opponents will have a little more time to decide whether to run. According to the elections code, if an incumbent doesn’t file by August 12, everybody else gets an extra five days to enter the race.

That’s a nice little tidbit for State Sen. Mark Leno to consider since he’ll find out August 15 whether he still lives in his own district or needs to think about finding another job like, say, mayor. We told you recently that new district maps are likely to change San Francisco from being split in two districts to just one — and Leno doesn’t yet know if that one will be his district or State Sen. Leland Yee’s.